“Come home to the Lowcountry!” If that strikes a longing for saltwater marshes, hundred-year-old live oaks draped with Spanish moss and a pungent odor that you identify as coming from plough mud, then you have spent enough time in the area along the South Carolina coast to know that it is like no other. Depending upon the source, you will find different criteria for defining the Lowcountry, but it is a combination of geography, culture, history, natural beauty and people that make this relatively small area one of the most popular and most-visited places in the world.    (more…)